American Fortune Life

"After years of being controlled by out-of-town owners, the Los Angeles Times is back in local hands again."

At the breakfast table the next morning, Andy couldn't help laughing and shaking his head as he read the headline "Who's Andy Smith?" in the Los Angeles Times.

The statement made by the new owner in the video conference yesterday afternoon completely relieved the editors of the Times. They welcomed a new boss who is not short of money. Looking forward to the day when the times will return to glory soon.

"What news makes you so happy?" Charlize, wearing a silver-gray two-piece silk nightgown with her hair tied up in a bun, walked into the restaurant a little lazily, first leaned over and kissed Andy, then reached out to take Read through the newspaper.

"Giggle..." Charlize giggled coquettishly while reading the report, and jokingly raised her eyebrows at Andy who was eating breakfast: "These guys are really good at currying favor with the new boss, haha, they're exaggerating too much Come on!"

"They're just stating the facts." Andy accepted all the orders in an extremely shameless way, shrugging his shoulders and saying like that.

"Heck, if I remember correctly, you are from New York, right? When did you become a local in Los Angeles? Tsk tsk, even your black history has been portrayed as a precious asset in the growth process of a genius... It's really impressive Can't take it!"

Charlize joked jokingly, rubbing her arms with goosebumps.

Andy looked at the expression of pride for his achievements on the face of Emperor Sai, smiled at her inappropriate complaints, and said with a smile: "Have you received the new script? Is there any problem?"

"Well, don't worry, although the role I play is somewhat similar to my experience, but I have come out of the shadows and I will not be entangled. I also hope to challenge it, maybe there will be a breakthrough." Charlize naturally knew Andy The meaning of the words is that the character she will play in the new script "The Burning Plain" is unable to extricate herself from the shadow of the sins she accidentally committed in her childhood, which is very similar to her childhood experience.

"To be honest, I don't want you to act in this movie, but Rob Freeman thinks you are the most suitable, and wants to send this movie to the Venice Film Festival next year." Andy looked softly, stretched out his hand He stroked Sai Huang's ruddy cheek and said.

"Hehe, don't worry, I'm not that fragile. My heart is already occupied by little Laura, and there's no room to carry those gray memories!"

"Ahem, that's too much, what about me? There must be a place for me!"

"hehe."

"What do you mean?"

"hehe..."

In the bright and spacious meeting room of the hatsApp company, Andy, who was sitting at the top, leaned lazily on the boss chair, crossed his hands in front of him, and looked at the subordinates who had already quarreled with each other with some headaches.

Without him, Wattsup, which has been running for free for one year, has divided the subordinates in the company into two camps because of whether to charge or not. Free or charge has become a big problem that Andy has to face.

What is now Wattspur has grown into a global phenomenon. Nearly 90 million people use its service to send text messages and photos for free. It can be said that no social tool has ever developed so rapidly. Facebook now only has 120 million users. And more importantly, nearly half of hatsApp users reply to messages every day.

Therefore, once the fee is charged, it will undoubtedly bring great profits to Wattsup, and let Wattsup, which has been investing money in development and burning money, start to make profits.

But the crux of the problem is the payment method. Users can only pay by credit card or electronic platform. This will cause inconvenience to those who do not own credit cards or accept payment by electronic platform. Andy is really speechless about this. Americans have always been skeptical about the security of electronic payments.

Another is to use the US dollar fee to complete the real-name login, because the credit card login data is real-name.

Everyone likes free things. Once there is a charge, Wattsup will definitely lose a lot of users. Wattsup, which is in the development stage, is very popular now, but if it really charges, it will definitely lose a large part of users. .

The ones who hate the Wattsup app the most are the wireless carriers, which generated $5 billion in SMS revenue in the past year. These carriers previously made a fortune by charging for each text message.

If you don't want to make money, how is that possible? Andy Smith, who has no profit and can't afford it early, will not let go of any opportunity to make money.

However, he also knows that now is definitely not a good time to charge. For his third-party payment platform plan, Wattsup will continue to be free.

"It seems that the acquisition of Starbucks must be implemented!"

After making a decision, Andy coughed twice, bringing the entire conference room back to silence. He leaned forward, placed his fingers on the conference table, looked around for a week, and said to his subordinates: "First of all, I reiterate that we There is absolutely no pressure on the company to make money right now. I hope you will be able to reach 500 million to 1 billion users in the next 3 years.

As for the company's profitability, I have long thought about it. However, at present, it is not the time to take it out, because our user base is still too small, so please don't worry about making profits. We are still a new company, everyone. We must settle down and continue to develop and promote. "

As the developer and owner of Wattsup, since Andy Smith has already stated his position, the people under him will naturally not say anything. The charging party also hopes that the company will have a profitable means to increase the market value of Wattsup, and for the future No. 1 Prepare for a round of financing.

But at present, it seems that his big boss does not seem to be ready for financing.

After the meeting, Andy sat alone in the meeting room, frowning slightly, writing quickly on a piece of paper with a pen in his hand.

Official account, using the official account platform to carry out self-media activities, in simple terms, is to conduct one-to-many media activities, and earn income by helping companies communicate with users.

This is the service project that Andy plans to launch after Wattsup has a sufficient user base, so as to create a better user experience and form a different ecological cycle. Let merchants apply for a public service account to display merchants' official website, membership, push, activities, registration, sharing, business cards, etc. through secondary development, forming a mainstream online and offline interactive marketing method. These merchants who apply for the official account have charged.

Of course, the most important thing is to use Wattsup's combination of online and offline to promote the third-party payment platform that he still has in the shadows. After the acquisition of Starbucks is completed, he is ready to start burning money to promote new applications!